Armed assaults on Istanbul police HQ, ruling party office (VIDEO)

Police detained two armed assailants who entered an office of the ruling AK party in Istanbul on Wednesday, a day after a fatal hostage shootout incident. Later in the day, two attackers were reportedly shot by police near Istanbul police headquarters.

As was seen from the pictures and a video posted on social media
one person broke the glass in two windows on the top floor of a
seven-story building occupied by the AKP party and hung a banner
resembling the Turkish flag outside.

It was not immediately clear how many people were inside the
building. The two men
ordered all those inside to leave. One of the armed
assailants addressed the crowd gathered around the building from
the window.

Police sealed off the road around the building in the Kartal
district of Istanbul’s Asian side. The tense situation took place
just one day after a fatal shootout involving special forces and
a prominent Istanbul prosecutor at one of the city’s main
courthouses, which was taken over by a far-left terrorist group.

Later on Wednesday, another attack was reported to have taken
place near the main Istanbul police station. A person was
reportedly seen lying on the ground outside the building
following an apparent attack, Reuters reported, citing Turkey's
Dogan news agency. Gunfire was heard, and all units were on
alert, an official at the police headquarters told Reuters.

Two attackers were shot by police in the incident, CNN Turk
reported.

Police neutralized the attackers, Turkish Haberturk channel
reported, cited by TASS, saying one of them was shot dead. Two
policemen were injured in the incident.

The attackers - reportedly a man and a woman - approached a
checkpoint of the police headquarters and opened fire on law
enforcers. The shootout was reported, and the area was completely
sealed off by the authorities.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at an Istanbul mosque on Wednesday,
to pay their respects to a prosecutor, identified as Mehmet Selim
Kiraz by Turkish media. The prosecutor was taken hostage by a
far-left group and was shot in the head during a police shootout
on Tuesday. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and a former
Turkish president were among those who attended the funeral, AP
reported.